Improvement in fences



P. L. SHERMAN.

Wire Fence.

N0.107,Z97. Patented Sept."13, 1870.

RIPE-TEES. PHCTO-LIIHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON D C aorta som tire,

PHINEAS L. SHERMAN, or GENESEO TOWNSHIP, IOWA.

Letters Patent No. 107,297, dated September 13, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCES.

The schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pail: of the same;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that], PHIXEAS L. SHERMAN, of Geneseo township, in the county of 'lama and State of Iowa, have invented a. new and useful- Improvemeat in Fences; and I do hereby declare the follow-' sockets and screws, by which the wire or othcr-feucing is secured to posts or trees.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawing.

My invent-ion has for its object to provide an improved fence; and, to this end, i

-It consists in the provision of double socket-s or loops, formed each of a short metallic bar, provided with two holes at right angles to each other, one for the passage of the fence-wires or rails, and the other to receive a screw or nail, by which the sockets are secured to a tree or post, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawingfence, formed A is a short metallic bar, provided with two holes,-

B, arranged at right angles to each other.

The sockets are secured to posts or trees, two or more being arranged upon a post or tree, one above the other, by means of nails or screws, 0, so that the lower holes shall receive the fence-wires D, as shown infig.1.'

When wires are not employed for fencing, .thclower hole of the sockets is made square, to receive the end ofa board or fence-rail, as shown in ii". 2.

By my invention fences may be formed by using trees for posts, without injury to the trees; Lighter posts may also be used, inasmuch as the nails or screws 0 do not weaken them.

Having thus described my invention, That I claim as new, and desireto secure by Let'- tors Patent, is-

Ili the construction of fences, the double sockets A, f

secured to posts or trees by the screws or nails 0, and

adapted to receive the feircingwircs or rails, in the uianucr described, for the purpose specified. PHINEAS L. SHERMAN.-

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E. A. ELLsWORTH, N.- K. ELLswoR'rH; 

